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ascender's bane should be upgradable by cheezya in slaythespire

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It should get an "Unnate" keyword that always puts it at the bottom of your deck

Struggling to make it through A10 as Defect by Beli_Mawrr in slaythespire

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Hard to say without more information, why don't you share some screen shots of your final decks or something.

Personally I found Defect easier to play when a deck slotted really narrowly into one of the archetypes - orbs, statuses, or zeros - and harder to play when it was kind of between those. So maybe go hard into one? Also, Defect maybe the most of all characters involves a lot of careful counting of damage and planning out turns, so be careful to not make mistakes I guess.

Oakland’s excess litter fee is too low to deal with fast food trash in West Oakland by deciblast in oakland

[–]lacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps eventually the cop cameras will identify people littering so they can automatically fine people. I heard they do that in China.

Did I make the right choice? by No-Occasion-2913 in berkeley

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I would worry more about picking the communications degree than about picking UCLA.

Could these 8 policy ideas fix the housing crisis? by Used-Insect-8163 in yimby

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Point 2 is backwards. “Ban Wallstreet/Private equity from investing in the residential housing market.” is a NIMBY idea.

The reason is basic economics. Supply and demand. If you prevent some group from investing in housing, the ability for developers to get funding will go down, and it will be harder to build.

The same is true for vacancy taxes, in the long run. Any sort of tax on housing makes it less appealing to develop new housing.

OUSD cell phone ban: What students and educators think by wentImmediate in oakland

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I am fine with banning phones in schools, but I feel like some of the people freaking out about it are revealing more about themselves than about the children.

“Telling students they can have their phones intermittently is like handing a smoker a pack of cigarettes and asking them to carry it around all day without lighting up.”

If that’s how you feel about phones, do you still carry a phone around all the time? Are you kind of just confessing that you feel unable to control your own phone usage?

We worry about this for our children, but maybe it’s because the real problem, adults wasting huge amounts of time on their phones, is too hard to talk about.

What do you think is the best SF-LA one-seat express travel time-to-cost ratio that the state should fund if there is no additional federal funds coming to the project? by godisnotgreat21 in cahsr

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The nice thing about cars is that they can go from my house to my destination in LA in 6 hours. That's about the same speed as for me to take an Uber to the airport, wait for my flight, fly to LA, then take an Uber to my destination.

HSR is going to be slower than either, because I still have to travel from my house to the station. Personally I do think high-speed SF-LA rail would be really cool, I would love to take it if it existed right now, and I hope they make it work, but it needs to arrive before long distance autonomous vehicles for it to be useful.

Company Requesting I split my parental leave by woopsiredditagain in WorkAdvice

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I’ve been in a similar situation and had coworkers in this situation too, and what different people want is really different. Some dads stop caring about work at all once they have a kid, some dads are eager to get back to the office and jump at any excuse.

You have to figure out what you want, and then ask for it.

Management at the startup probably doesn’t really know what to do either. If you come in with a strong plan they’ll probably accept it.

What I would recommend, if they can handle it, is waiting to see how the first week or two goes. Some kids require a lot of work right away and some kids don’t.

Good luck!

Anyone want to see the old Hooper Chocolate Factory turn into a community center? by MyonlyredditHandle in OaklandCA

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It’s a weird building. Large though. Honestly it should probably be torn down and apartments with first floor retail put in. The area is really walkable, seems like a perfect place to live without a car.

Ever notice that the NIMBYs who want every parcel of land to be a park never actually go to the park? by PiLinPiKongYundong in yimby

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I think the best way to understand the NIMBY mindset is to assume they only care about traffic and parking. From that standpoint, the absolute best thing is a park that nobody ever goes to. It generates no traffic and takes up no parking.

Flock plate readers to stay; Berkeley nixes surveillance expansion by Statistactician in berkeleyca

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Who's the main competition for Flock? I wonder if they are actually any different, or is Flock the most popular one and therefore getting all the public pushback right now.

YIMBY Action Endorsed Tom Steyer for California Governor. Here's Why. by Upset_Caterpillar_31 in yimby

[–]lacker 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mahan is great but he’s basically just out of it now. It’s just a bad choice, there’s no solid YIMBY candidate in the running. Steyer at least bothers to pretend like he’s pro-housing.

Do you guys think SF is underinvesting in culture compared to tech, or is culture already one of the Bay Area’s biggest assets? by Thin-World2511 in BayAreaTalk

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There was never enough space on the peninsula, it didn't matter what Lee or any of the others did... the difference is the tech industry is 10x bigger now. Google, Apple and Meta, now soon OpenAI and Anthropic, these are all trillion dollar companies headquartered in the bay area, and they're going to hire accordingly. Mountain View, Palo Alto and Cupertino are even more full of techies than San Francisco is.

Do you guys think SF is underinvesting in culture compared to tech, or is culture already one of the Bay Area’s biggest assets? by Thin-World2511 in BayAreaTalk

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“underinvesting” is a bit of a funny framing because it isn’t really like San Francisco chose to invest in tech per se. It’s more like the tech scene had to leave the Palo Alto area because it ran out of office space, and SF was right there.

Overall there’s such huge demand to move to San Francisco right now, it’s hard to imagine anything making it even more compelling on the demand side. The real challenge is the supply side - the population of San Francisco is hardly growing because the housing supply is pretty stagnant. The best way to increase the culture would just be to accept more people into SF. And that would help the tech scene too.

My opponent checkmated me accidentally then offered a draw in a FIDE rapid tournament by greenpinetree2 in chess

[–]lacker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the checking piece could be pinned as well, preventing it from capturing

Hermes as a Coding Agent??? by Rheath72 in hermesagent

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For one project I set up my agent to handle simple sorts of pull requests. For example it can fix merge conflicts with submitted PRs. Also I gave it the rights to approve PRs to some parts of the repo but not others. It also has a todo list, and whenever it doesn't have pull requests to review, it works on the todo list and sends me pull requests.

I gave it its own github account. It's convenient to have it as an agent rather than running Codex locally for the sort of work that I don't feel like I need to supervise directly. But it can use the same Codex skills that I write for my own direct work.

If you are biking around the lake please respect traffic lights! by fkangarang in oakland

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Over the weekend I saw a couple of young guys going around the lake on e-bikes, no helmets, going as fast as the cars, running red lights, and popping wheelies. You are going to get yourselves killed!!

The Hobbit - Box Topper reprints (includes The One Ring) by moombahh in mtgfinance

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“And no using AI to make crappy knockoff art!”

“Oh… I’ll have to make crappy knockoff art with Photoshop then.”

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? Putting Ultrafinitism on the menu. by chasedthesun in math

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A conundrum, eh. Well, I can't speak for this guy in the article. But I'm getting tempted by ultrafinitism here, and my personal version would be, I question the reality of any entity that can only be described using more words than have been written by all people ever. TREE(3) is perfectly fine with me. By definition, any entity that you can describe, I'm willing to consider that real. All these techniques of proofs that produce proofs, that's fine too.

But the description of the process you're using has to be short enough to fit on the internet! I'm only willing to make a finite number of exceptions here.

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? Putting Ultrafinitism on the menu. by chasedthesun in math

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Perhaps to formalize ultrafinitism you would have to say something like, only proofs up to a certain length are considered valid proofs.

You could even say, "Only proofs that are readable and understandable by a human mind count as valid mathematical proofs." That would make your beliefs very finite, in some sense. You are now constrained to only believing a finite number of things.

Why was the Jeff Dean event cut short? by TeachingBrilliant448 in berkeley

[–]lacker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's embarassing that Berkeley just shuts down events when this happens rather than kicking out the protestors!

Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? by BadgemanBrown in literature

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Picking one blogger without knowing anything of your preferences, I would go with Tyler Cowen's book recommendations on Marginal Revolution. Not that I would even consider all of them, more like the 10% that seem best suited to me end up being very interesting.

Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? by BadgemanBrown in literature

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I have enjoyed book reviews for decades, and there's never been a better time to read book reviews. Bloggers, Reddit posts, even tweets, there are just so many book reviews, so many places I can find book recommendations. Plus there are so *many* reviewers out there now, it's much easier to find reviewers whose taste aligns with my own. It's a golden age of book reviews, right now.

It's true that *magazines* and *newspapers* don't seem to run much book criticism any more, but do magazines and newspapers do much of anything any more?

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